Official Name: | Llapushnik |
Native Name: | Llapushniku |
Native Name Lang: | sq |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Kosovo |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Kosovo |
Subdivision Type: | Location |
Subdivision Type1: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Pristina |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Drenas |
Leader Name: | Ramiz Lladrovci |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 3433 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Coordinates: | 42.5656°N 20.8439°W |
Postal Code: | 13000 |
Llapushnik (or Llapushniku) is a village in municipality Drenas in Kosovo.
Demographics | ||
Year | Population | |
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1948 | ||
1953 | ||
1961 | ||
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Ref: Federal Office of Statistics and Evidence of Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, census for 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981. and 1991. |
The village became notorious after 1998 because of the Lapušnik prison camp operated by the Albanian militant organization the UÇK. It also had a famous battle with the KLA and Yugoslav forces, which led to an KLA victory in 1998 known as the Battle of Llapushnik[2] [3]